Science: 1.Physical Attributes needed to be the best in this sport:
Senses: Sight and Touch
Muscle Groups ( describe if they should be fast and or strong): Every part of the body is used.
Mental focus skills: Patience 2.Dietary Requirements:
Link:http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=31257 3. 3 most common injuries:
Injury 1:Trips
Injury 2:Getting stuck in netting
Injury 3:Getting hit by the boom 4. How do these apply to your sport?
Physical:Strength to move all boat parts suddenly
Mental/Emotional:Being able to handle being under water
Social:If sailing with others the ability to comunicate
Intellectual:Knowing what to do and the different parts of the boat
Spiritual:None is needed 5. List three athletes in the history of your sport with their medals won and the years they won them.
A.Tom King, Mark Turnbull in 2000
B.Paul Forester, Kevin Burnham in 2004
C.Nathin Wilmot, Malcolm Page in 2008
English: Jacob Holland Mrs. Kerr English 4 The Olympics Games Essay The Olympics Games have been around for thousands of years and have changed. Today the Olympics have various events and competitions that have changed over the years to meet the standards of entertainment in the majority of the population today. This has been happening to the Olympics games because they have recently invented sports that have grown in popularity and because there is a growing in interest of the winter Olympic Game, snowboarding. First, the Olympic Games have been added and eliminated since the time of the first Olympics. The Olympic Games started in the year 776 B.C. in Greece with the only game being the 200 yard dash then, in the year 708 B.C. they started adding what is considered more modern activities such as wrestling, leaping, and jumping (Nostos). Later in the history of the Olympic Games, they started adding the most recent sports and events, some examples are, in the year 1920 they added Ice Hockey and in the year 1936 the game of Basketball is added to the Olympic Games (Infoplease). As the Olympic Games grow older, the more people and events they have, in the year 1896 there was 14 countries and 43 events and in the year1908 there was more than 2,000 competitors and 100 events (Infoplease). The Olympic Games have changed from what is considered as “ancient” games to the most recent games that are widely played. One of reasons the Olympics are so popular is because of snowboarding and its constant need to “step it up” and every year have more talent and ability to “wow” the audience. The sport of snowboarding was added to the Olympic Games in the year 1960 and it is a creative combination of two very popular sports skateboarding and skiing, to many people the combination of the two sports into one was a way to keep up the demand for entertainment (Pocanticohills). The Olympic Game snowboarding is usually either the half-pipe or the giant parallel slalom to get the audience excited with the extreme event about to happen (Pocanticohills). The Olympic game was revolutionized by a man named Shaun White who in the past years has won numerous awards including several gold medals in multiple countries (Sports. Yahoo). The sport of Snowboarding is very popular and the boarder Shaun White seems that every time he competes he does something better than the last time which has won him many medals. The Olympics have been changing since it was made because of the demand for talent. Snowboarding has made it so that people like Shaun White can impress and give the population what they want “Talent.” The Olympics are always changing and are going to change foreve
Math:
Wiki Math Olympic Pentathlon Event
Estimate (in cm)
Actual (in cm)
Error (Estimate - Actual)
% Error (Error/Actual x 100)
Paper Plate Discus
90cm
98cm
-8
8.16326%
Drinking Straw Javelin
200cm
208cm
-8
3.84615%
Cotton Ball Shot Put
190cm
200cm
-10
5%
Long Stride
70cm
72cm
-2
-2.777%
High Vertical Jump
25cm
26cm
-1
-3.84615%
What is the average of your Percent Error? _2.077252%__
History: Jacob Holland Mr. Chiburis S.S. 1 Olympic Games-Jamaica 1.A picture of Jamaica’s flag. 2.Jamaica participates in both winter and summer Olympic Games. 3.The country of Jamaica on a map. 4.Jamaica has won 14 gold medals. 5.Jamaica has won 24 silver medals. 6.Jamaica has won 17 bronze medals. 7.The most recent winter Olympic Games were played in Vancouver, Canada. 8.The most recent summer Olympic Games were played in Beijing, China. 9.Jamaica has never hosted an Olympic Game. 10.Some famous athletes from Jamaica are: Usain Bolt Asafa Powell 11.My favorite summer event is the events that involve track. My favorite winter event is snowboarding.
1.Physical Attributes needed to be the best in this sport:
Senses: Sight and Touch
Muscle Groups ( describe if they should be fast and or strong): Every part of the body is used.
Mental focus skills: Patience
2.Dietary Requirements:
Link:http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=31257
3. 3 most common injuries:
Injury 1:Trips
Injury 2:Getting stuck in netting
Injury 3:Getting hit by the boom
4. How do these apply to your sport?
Physical:Strength to move all boat parts suddenly
Mental/Emotional:Being able to handle being under water
Social:If sailing with others the ability to comunicate
Intellectual:Knowing what to do and the different parts of the boat
Spiritual:None is needed
5. List three athletes in the history of your sport with their medals won and the years they won them.
A.Tom King, Mark Turnbull in 2000
B.Paul Forester, Kevin Burnham in 2004
C.Nathin Wilmot, Malcolm Page in 2008
English:
Jacob Holland
Mrs. Kerr
English 4
The Olympics Games Essay
The Olympics Games have been around for thousands of years and have changed. Today the Olympics have various events and competitions that have changed over the years to meet the standards of entertainment in the majority of the population today. This has been happening to the Olympics games because they have recently invented sports that have grown in popularity and because there is a growing in interest of the winter Olympic Game, snowboarding.
First, the Olympic Games have been added and eliminated since the time of the first Olympics. The Olympic Games started in the year 776 B.C. in Greece with the only game being the 200 yard dash then, in the year 708 B.C. they started adding what is considered more modern activities such as wrestling, leaping, and jumping (Nostos). Later in the history of the Olympic Games, they started adding the most recent sports and events, some examples are, in the year 1920 they added Ice Hockey and in the year 1936 the game of Basketball is added to the Olympic Games (Infoplease). As the Olympic Games grow older, the more people and events they have, in the year 1896 there was 14 countries and 43 events and in the year1908 there was more than 2,000 competitors and 100 events (Infoplease). The Olympic Games have changed from what is considered as “ancient” games to the most recent games that are widely played.
One of reasons the Olympics are so popular is because of snowboarding and its constant need to “step it up” and every year have more talent and ability to “wow” the audience. The sport of snowboarding was added to the Olympic Games in the year 1960 and it is a creative combination of two very popular sports skateboarding and skiing, to many people the combination of the two sports into one was a way to keep up the demand for entertainment (Pocanticohills). The Olympic Game snowboarding is usually either the half-pipe or the giant parallel slalom to get the audience excited with the extreme event about to happen (Pocanticohills). The Olympic game was revolutionized by a man named Shaun White who in the past years has won numerous awards including several gold medals in multiple countries (Sports. Yahoo). The sport of Snowboarding is very popular and the boarder Shaun White seems that every time he competes he does something better than the last time which has won him many medals.
The Olympics have been changing since it was made because of the demand for talent. Snowboarding has made it so that people like Shaun White can impress and give the population what they want “Talent.” The Olympics are always changing and are going to change foreve
Math:
Pentathlon
Event
(in cm)
(in cm)
(Estimate - Actual)
(Error/Actual x 100)
What is the average of your Percent Error? _2.077252%__
History:
Jacob Holland
Mr. Chiburis
S.S. 1
Olympic Games-Jamaica
1. A picture of Jamaica’s flag.
2. Jamaica participates in both winter and summer Olympic Games.
3. The country of Jamaica on a map.
4. Jamaica has won 14 gold medals.
5. Jamaica has won 24 silver medals.
6. Jamaica has won 17 bronze medals.
7. The most recent winter Olympic Games were played in Vancouver, Canada.
8. The most recent summer Olympic Games were played in Beijing, China.
9. Jamaica has never hosted an Olympic Game.
10. Some famous athletes from Jamaica are: Usain Bolt
Asafa Powell
11. My favorite summer event is the events that involve track.
My favorite winter event is snowboarding.